The benefits of having a merry heart and how to have one in spite of your situation

A Merry Heart
Proverbs 17:22
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine..."
· I have two goals for this message.
1. That you will leave our church with a merry heart.
2. That you will maintain that merry heart through the whole week, no matter what circumstances you face.
· A merry heart is
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A message meant to encourage Christians to have a more positive outlook on life rather than live in the negative all the time.

A Merry Heart Does a Body Good…
Various Scriptures
July 22, 2007
I’d like to think that I’m overall, a pretty positive guy.
I like to joke around, I like to laugh, and I try not to take myself too seriously.
But every now and again I have to stop and wonder if I really am that positive
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Lord of the Joy
John 16:19-22
http://gbcdecatur.org/sermons/LordOfTheJoy.html
How many here are saved?
How many here have joy?
It should be the same exact crowd. A joyless Christian ought to be a contradiction in terms...an oxymoron.
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How many know about the sorrow of v.
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God’s Proverbs instructs us in how God wants us to live. These Proverbs teach us that God has designed us to function better when we are cheerful. Even our physical & emotional health is effected by our spiritual mood.

A CHEERFUL HEART
PROVERBS 15:13, 15; 17:22
In the Bible the heart can be the center or focus of passions; the center of the thought processes and even the spring of conscience. Heart, in fact, is associated with what is now meant by the thinking, the will, and the emotions of personal
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Motivation, Inpspiration, and encouragment...
Obtaining and living with excellent health.

Excellence is so Attractive – Part 2
Excellence Health can be Yours!!!
I. Introduction
A. Last week I shared, what many said was, an excellent message.
1. I don’t know if the delivery was excellent, but I believe the content of the message was.
B. Today, I’m going to continue
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LIFE IS BUT A BATTLE OF ATTITUDES! THE BATTLE IS BETWEEN PESSIMISM AND OPTIMISM.

LIFE IS BUT A BATTLE OF ATTITUDES!
THE BATTLE IS BETWEEN PESSIMISM AND OPTIMISM.
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
TEXT:
Proverbs 15:13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 15:15 --- He that is of a merry heart
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November 9, 2002
I. Introduction
A. Theme for this month of November is Praise and Thanksgiving
B. Fitting theme
1. In the month of October, we celebrated thanksgiving here in Canada
2. In the month of November, our neighbor south of the border is celebrating thanksgiving.
3. As we
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Suitable for funeral for elderly Godly man
who endured hardships in his life.

Mr.________ would fully identify with the Psalmist
in that in his lifetime he was tested, and he would
agree that he walked through the "fire and water"
but he would also testify that God has now brought
him to a place of abundance (Heaven).
What characteristics did Mr._________have
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#2 STUDY OF THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT: JOY
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.
Kyfingers@aol.com
TEXT:
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23. Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Text:
Nehemiah 8:10 --for the
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Just What the Doctor Ordered
Prov. 17:22
It’s usually healthy to follow the doctor’s orders.
After giving a woman a full medical examination, the doctor writes out a prescription and gives instructions on the dosage. "Take the green pill with a large glass of water when you get up. Take the
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This is a message to help those who can relate to the spiritual hole described in Proverbs 18:14 “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?”

Overcoming Spiritual Discouragement
Overcoming spiritual discouragement.
Text: Proverbs 18:14 “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?”
In this message we want to try to explain the difference between soulish discouragement, and spiritual
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In a day when realationships can create or break you; this word will change lives!

5 Keys to Good Relationships Text: Philippians 2: 1-4
The basis of Christian unity is expressed in conditional clauses if, if, if. Anytime you read the word “ if” usually this conveys that an act of love or kindness could be reversed if the person behaves in a different
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To fall in love with God is the greatest of all romances, To seek him the greatest adventure, To find him the greatest human achievement.

Let us start by saying the following prayer points:
1. Every closed door of blessing, open, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every pillar of witchcraft in my family, die, in Jesus’ name.
3. Every dark power that has ever visited me at night, what are you waiting for? Die, in Jesus’
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Praise is a mighty weapon of warfare in the life of the believer, when we learn how to excercise ourselves in praise regardless of our emotions we have taken a big step toward consistent victorious living.

Ps 150:6 Let everything that hath breath praise ye the Lord.
Make the choice to rejoice,
Ps.9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most high.
Ps.34:1 I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall continually be in my mouth, my soul shall make her
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Contrast Terah the father of Abraham and his incomplete journey with the inspiring faith and obedience of Abraham.

THE TEMPTATION OF TERAH
Genesis 11:31-12:4
Hebrews 11:8-19
Resolutions are made and broken. Diets are begun and ended. Home improvement projects lie around our houses half completed. Beginning with enthusiasm is not enough. Planning a journey, loading the van, the buzz of excitement is
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